Maine's Weather & Climate, and Ecological Setting (www.bigelow.org/virtual/index_weather.html)
Nicely organized page from a series developed by Bigelow Lab. Includes key questions, terminology, web links to many different types of images and data. Very good educational resource. Part of Bigelow's "Virtual Vacationland... a resource tool to help you find and use Earth Science data and information on the Internet. "
National Weather Service Gray/Portland, Maine (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/gyx/)
One stop shopping, leading to dozens of links for current weather data and forecasts for Maine, as well as historical statistics. To appreciate the real wealth of data on this site, be sure to browse the site map and the
Climate Information Library.
National Weather Service Caribou, Maine (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/car/) Extensive forecast info for northern and eastern Maine. Special feature of the site is the
Maine-ly Weather online magazine produced by the Caribou NWS staff.
Maine State Climate Office (http://www.umaine.edu/maineclimate)
Well-organized site links to many dozens of data sources on climate and climate change. Includes the Maine State Climate Office's own monthly newletter.
Maine Cooperative Snow Survey (http://www.state.me.us/mema/weather/snow.htm) Maps showing depth and water content of Maine's snowpack.
National Weather Service Northeast River Forecasts (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/guidance.shtml) Many links to river level and flood forecasts.
Environment Canada: Canadian Meterological Service: Quebec or New Brunswick. Current weather conditions, forecasts, satellite, and radar imagery for the areas surrounding Maine, provided by a federal agency of the Canadian government. Particularly good set of satellite and radar images put Maine at the center of the map (choose the GOES - East images for Eastern Canada). On this site you can also find Environment Canada's forecasts for Portland and several other Maine locations
Climatic Extremes and Weather Events (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/extremes.html) Extreme weather: links to NOAA web pages related to climatic extremes, weather events, and climate change.
Maine TV station weather pages:
Presque Isle:
Channel 8, WAGM-TV
Bangor:
Channel 2, WLBZ-TV Nice radar/satellite images.
Channel 5, WABI-TV
Portland:
Channel 6, WCSH-TV has a very good selection of radar and satellite images. Channel 6's Joe Cupo is the author of a booklet Weather: records, patterns and phenomena published by DeLorme.
Channel 13, Portland. On the Channel 13 website, meteorologist Sarah Long provides a link to the American Meteorological Society's Datastreme Atmosphere, a professional development resource for teachers.
Search Maine libraries for books and government documents on Weather in Maine
last update 02/29/2004